The Golden Age of Television came to a halt when the TV industry hit a fork in the road.
Egypt has reopened one of its great pyramids as it attempts to revive a tourism industry hit by last year's uprising.
Senior Intel management, notably Chief Executive Paul Otellini, has signaled concern over sufficient manufacturing capacity in 2010 should the PC industry hit or exceed a prospective 10%-15% unit rate of growth.
Across the different sectors, non-manufacturing PMI for the construction industry hit a whopping 62.5, up by 4.5 percentage points over the previous month even as housing takes a beating from a new 20% tax on used home sales and a ban on same-city second home purchases in Beijing.
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But three years ago the industry was hit hard by the after-effects of the Russian financial crisis.
When President Obama took office, we faced the worst recession since the Great Depression, and the American auto industry was hit hard.
Sugar was the industry hardest hit by the collapse of the Soviet Union, which for years paid prices well above world levels.
The construction industry was hit brutally hard when the housing bubble burst.
In the consumer-electronics industry, hit especially hard by the big firms' exodus offshore, one in three firms is entering a new line of business.
The semiconductor industry was hit with a double whammy on Monday as the National Bureau of Economic Research said the U.S. has been in a recession since December 2007 and an industry trade group said it's anticipating weak chip sales into the next year.
Wales' record as a site of heavy industry was hit when the Cardiff firm Allied Steel and Wire shut with the lost of more 700 jobs, although it is hoped the Spanish steelmaker Celsa will step in and buy out the plant and perhaps reemploy many of the workers.
Probably no industry is more hard hit in Thailand that the HDD industry.
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Egypt's tourism industry was badly hit last year following the unrest that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
Israel continues to ban most exports and local industry has been hit hard.
The airline industry has been hit hard by an economic slowdown in key markets such as the US and Europe.
But since those industry leaders also hit the same storm that has broken over Marconi, they have been in no position to buy.
The spiralling cost of the fuel has also threatened to hit industry and has led to growing political pressure, especially in the US ahead of the Presidential election.
Even though the industry has been hit hard by competition from satellite providers, new services are giving cable operators hope, promoting revenue growth and growing their subscriber base.
The tech industry has been hit with other FCPA investigations.
Under the bill, Medicare cuts would force hospitals to operate more efficiently or risk going out of business, insurance companies would face new federal regulations, and the health care industry would be hit by new taxes.
The energy industry needs to avoid "the same kind of body blow that just hit the financial industry, " billionaire Richard Branson warned Wednesday.
This is a national project that has meant thousands of jobs for the hard-hit construction industry.
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However, the whisky industry said move would hit demand, reduce investment and cost jobs.
Considering the industry was hard-hit by the recession, Wallrath says he's been heartened by the response.
The financial industry was the worst hit, with 49% of IT departments planning to cut their budgets.
Many small businesses complain they get little support from law enforcement or the credit-card industry once they are hit.
By the way, what the great economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" is about to hit this industry again.
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